1) Message boards : Number crunching : Wonderful, the upload server is disabled (Message 1004147) Posted 14 Jun 2010 by Greg Hogan Post: I have a sh1tload of WUs to upload and still waiting to get them to those SETI servers. So.. Im not going to bother waiting anymore and am just going to abandon them and uninstall BOINC again.. my processing is a waste of time. Maybe I will retry in a six months again but Im picking it will still be the same lacklustre performance... ie. I hold un-uploaded WUs till they expire again. Keep up the mediocre. Long live the Proliteriate.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Ouch...... (Message 947829) Posted 17 Nov 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: G'Day Sounds like you guys need to call an electrician. Serious. Keep it legal and you keep your insurance. It may work but its not very sound practice to overload domestic sockets, consequences can include fire, loss of property and even dead people. Here in NZ we have phase 240VAC and most sockets are rated to 10Amps (2400Watt total), limited by a 16Amp circut breaker(s). But hey, one isnt limited to that, call a sparkie to fit a shiney new bank of sockets, with heavy wire (like the electric oven) with a heavy 40Amp breaker in the place you need it most. Having extension cords lead all about the house is dangerous and can cause no end of spousal questions like.. "The jug wont go ! Again." "We could close the door if that damn cord wasnt there!" "That bright orange cable really doesnt go with the wallpaper does it ?!" "Oh for god sake open a bloody window!" (oops, different arguement) or the nightmare scenario.. "Awww buggar, Seti tripped the fuse and the beers are bloody warm - yuck!"

3) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : CUDA and Laptops with Mobile-GPUs (Message 882108) Posted 3 Apr 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Righty-Oh .. I'll give that a go Cheers

4) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : CUDA and Laptops with Mobile-GPUs (Message 881853) Posted 3 Apr 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: G'Day Heres and interesting problem.. Anyone got the same ? I have an Acer 8920G with a 9500M GS Nvidia GPU in it. The only drivers for it are from ACER (old as) and the latest mobile driver 179.48 from Nvidia. The desktop ones wont install. From the messages tab, BOINC 6.6.17 recognises it as a CUDA device. CUDA device: GeForce 9500M GS (driver version 17948, CUDA version 1.1, 512MB, est. 11GFLOPS) But as yet no CUDA WUs (its prefs are set for CUDA and it works on the two desktops) Has anyone found a way to get CUDA up and running on a Nvidia GPU laptop ? Cheers in advance

5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : We've GOT to get this in the U.S. (Message 881246) Posted 1 Apr 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: I can see the adverts of a not too distant future.. Buy a tank of Gasoline and get a Free Car !

6) Message boards : Politics : ISRAEL /PALESTINE (Message 881244) Posted 1 Apr 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is an old forgery was also exported to Germany, where it first appeared in 1919.. Hmmm I got this from Wikipedia too.. The Protocols, far from being a "discovered" document as it was claimed to be, was in fact deliberately fabricated sometime between 1895 and 1902 by Russian journalist Matvei Golovinski. Just goes to show.. Never trust anything purportedly written by or inspired by a God to run your life, like the Torah, Bible, Koran, Talmud or anything by Crowley - its all FICTION. If israel is the land of the children of god, then someone better tell god he got squatters.

7) Message boards : Politics : Cannabis prohibition has failed. It's time for a new approach. (Message 881239) Posted 1 Apr 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: ..prohibition has failed. It's time for a new approach. I agree. Prohibition is more about the moving of 'a stock' from a state of 'general availability' to the uncontrolled, unregulated and underground black market. One has to ask the question "Who wants it prohibited and why ?" Not the users thats for sure - status quo or more widely available would be their choices. Maybe the non-user population, but they are not 'stake-holders' so anything they want is mere opinion, belief or the classic sticky-beak do-gooder I-know-whats-best interventionist mentality. It doesn't really matter to them either way. The people whom benefit the most are the suppliers, growers/chemists, marketers. The end of the money chain guys. Prohibition only benefits the criminals who have a vested interest in keeping the 'Stock' in their domain - their underground. Where they can make the most money. When its illegal you cannot manage it, you cannot educate people, you cannot minimize the harm because the powers that be have taken the Ostrich approach and pretended there is no problem that cannot be solved by telling people "You are not allowed to.." or you will be locked up. Writing a blanket law that basically says "Drugs are bad - dont do drugs" simply because some people cannot be responsible enough or lack self-control is akin to writing a law that prohibits car driving because it might result in an accident. Second thoughts.. that might be a good idea. Not! Im not advocating carte-blanch unregulated use, that is an extreme Im not comfortable with but as a sentient being I reserve the right to do whatever I like. Side-swipe.. Here in good ol' West Auckland New Zealand its pretty much an offense to not use the Herb as God intended (all that bears seed I give to you). Distilling alcohol is a legal right here, its legal, anyone can brew beer, wine or make whiskey. Our problem here is the scourge Meth-Amphetamine, which is prohibited and makes the gangs rich enough to pay-off lawyers, police and politicians to keep it that way. There are people who are not dysfunctional unemployed stoners, that quite like their recreational drugs be it Wine, Beer, Pot, Heroine or chocolate.

8) Message boards : Number crunching : nVidia 182.46 beta drivers (Message 879972) Posted 28 Mar 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Does it fix the problem of slow screen update when running SETI CUDA? Ive been pondering the same problem.. got an idea that might help. The GPU works its fastest when there is nothing plugged into them. Put in a second non-cuda card and use that. ??? It'd probably bump the RAC up a bit too.

9) Message boards : Number crunching : **SETI MB OUTAGE-4/3/09**-CLOSED (Message 879971) Posted 28 Mar 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Double bad luck.. This is my back-up project LHC popped a gasket first. At least the beers cold ! :)

10) Message boards : Number crunching : **SETI MB OUTAGE-4/3/09**-CLOSED (Message 879346) Posted 26 Mar 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Oh dear.. This is serious !! With my Q6600, 8800GTS and the 750W PSU all sitting at 99% Idle now they have indeed dropped the ambient temp and it has noticeable slowed down the Fermentation rate of my homebrew. I think I'll name this latest batch 'Thumper' in honour of the ensuing headache. Cheers and Good luck on the fix guys.

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 7's draconian DRM? (Message 868982) Posted 24 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: What if you don't want DRM ? Like the same way others don't want Netscape or MSN etc Is there a way to de-install it ? Sound like a whole lotta wasted clock cycles to me.

12) Message boards : Number crunching : Preferences: No Astropulse (Message 868980) Posted 24 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: I'll give that a go. Cheers

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Preferences: No Astropulse (Message 868967) Posted 24 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: I think the Preferences are not working, as I have Astropulse set to NO and Im still getting them.

14) Message boards : Number crunching : 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 - (32 lanes) mobo ? (Message 866595) Posted 18 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: The amount of CPU loading to run a GPU is almost negligible. But it this way.. the amount thats lost in CPU processing is vastly less than the amount of processing done in the GPU. My Q6600 doesn't process anywhere near as many tasks as the 8800GTS - by a long shot.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 - (32 lanes) mobo ? (Message 862279) Posted 5 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: I think this is where we run outta bandwidth, even with triple channel DDR3, to power more than two dual PCIe 3.0 16lane channels fully. That would be equivalent to 16 PCIe 1.0 16Lane channels. Please tell me Im wrong so I can get one for my next machine :)

16) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti@home and Nvidia Cuda (Message 862267) Posted 5 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Caution - Serious pipe dreaming follows :) The whole GPU/Tesla concept has done a whole lot of good to the science of massively parallel computing. 240 cores on a single sliver in a BGA package. Wow. Considering not too long ago if you wanted to build a multi proc device you started with a couple of individual chips and started from there. CPUs and ALUs were not the most sophisticated and there was a trade-off between power, speed and die size. Not so resticted now :) Enter the nice guys who built the Monolith suite for New Vision Systems and voila..better accuracy.. mass production of sub 110nm features became a cheap reality, less wasted, shareholders rub their hands more. We all know the rest.. more gates per square mm, more cores, lower power, higher clock speeds - basically reinvigorating Moores law. Now we hear of sub 30nm fab processes being developed. Soon we will be finding surplus trays of old G92 GPUs on eBay for near nix. At that point someone will crank up the PCB design tools and print as big a board as one dares, populate it with a couple of dozen of said GPUs with high-speed FPGAs to do the plumbing etc.. Hypercubes on a card. Heck, Nvidia give you the good reference design as a starting point. Yes I know its seriously simplified but hey - its not impossible. Somewhere in someones garage out there, there will be a homemade hardcore box most likely powered by a modded arc welder, scaring the b-gezzis outta the traditional CPU makers.

17) Message boards : Number crunching : No jobs available (Message 862155) Posted 5 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Yeah. Too much playing on computers and not enough beer me thinks.

18) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti@Home Cuda Sluggishness (Message 862049) Posted 4 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: I have a similar thing too. After exiting BOINC and making sure everything is gone in TaskManager I still cant run FarCry2. It gets to the splash screen and then just flickers with black screens. Reboot, BOINC not in startup, FarCry2 runs. Ive also noticed it with Stellarium except it does run but about a 1000th (feels like anyways) of the speed. Same thing .. reboot and alls well. At the moment I have no CPU based tasks running (6.6.3, no work rx'd) but Ive been peeling the GPU tasks back so fast that there has been no serious difference. The Q6600 is definitely playing second fiddle here and the GPU is only a 8800GTS. The messages tab says boinc estimates it at 41 GFLOPS which compared to my old IBM 4133 days if unbelievable ! :) Even more incredible is that CUDA has refreshed my enthusiasm for C++ But hey.. its all new stuff and pioneers don't always find the best track.

19) Message boards : Number crunching : End of Seti (for me) !! (Message 861975) Posted 4 Feb 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Its seems to be a norm at the moment. Everyone is suffering. Except the energy companies are making obscene record beating profits whilst neglecting plant maintenance and begging for handouts. Ive been trying to promote a open season on them, a daily limit might need to be imposed as theres quite a few out there who would like to get their pound of flesh back. Hell .. some countries could even put a bounty on them. Hasn't gained any traction unfortunately.

20) Message boards : Number crunching : FLOPS & FPOPS (Message 859674) Posted 30 Jan 2009 by Greg Hogan Post: Cheers for that tip - will look at that. Using Xilinx ISE+EDK and Altium with a Nanoboard.

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